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union city 50. redwood city only 49. san rafel, 49 degrees tomorrow. get a little bit of a break on saturday. showers return saturday night. then a wet and chilly bat earn through thursday of next week. that's your cbs 5 forecast. >> coming up the gift card glitch that's leaving many people empty handed. cbs 5 reporter julie watts ex etailer >>> gift cards are easy to give and great to get with one exception. >> why one major retailer is getting a lot of complaints. >> reporter: they were christmas gifts from his mom, but when ed tried to spend his macies gift cards. >> she said there's a zero balance. and i said there can't be. i haven't used it yet. >> reporter: his second card was no good either. his mother purchased them at a northern california safeway. they've been tucked away in a drawer for more than a year. >> the gift card representative who said these cards were already used. where? she said one of the places was online. and i said i don't shop online. guy into a store. >> reporter: he's not the only one complaining. we found similar complai
union city 50. redwood city only 49. san rafel, 49 degrees tomorrow. get a little bit of a break on saturday. showers return saturday night. then a wet and chilly bat earn through thursday of next week. that's your cbs 5 forecast. >> coming up the gift card glitch that's leaving many people empty handed. cbs 5 reporter julie watts ex etailer >>> gift cards are easy to give and great to get with one exception. >> why one major retailer is getting a lot of complaints....
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several public interest groups, civil rights organizations and labor unions opposed the move, and last week, senator bernie sanders and several of his colleagues called on chairman genachowski to hold off. bernie sanders is an outspoken opponent of media consolidation. he sees it as a threat to democracy. once the mayor of burlington, vermont, he served 16 years in the house of representatives and was recently re-elected to his second term in the senate. he's the longest serving independent in the history of congress. he was in new york earlier this week and we met for this interview. welcome. good to see you again. >> good to be with you, bill. >> this is a strong letter, inspired one of your colleagues in the senate says, by you. what's the beef? >> what the chairman of the fcc is now talking about is making a bad situation much worse by loosening up the cross-ownership rules, which means now that a media giant, one of the big companies, whether it's murdoch's news corp. or anyone else, will be able to own major television stations, a newspaper, and radio stations within a given comm
several public interest groups, civil rights organizations and labor unions opposed the move, and last week, senator bernie sanders and several of his colleagues called on chairman genachowski to hold off. bernie sanders is an outspoken opponent of media consolidation. he sees it as a threat to democracy. once the mayor of burlington, vermont, he served 16 years in the house of representatives and was recently re-elected to his second term in the senate. he's the longest serving independent in...
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dubai last week and members of your committee staff to prevent the international telecommunication union from expanding its reach into the internet complex ecosystem and as the chairman mentioned, it is a crucial time, as we sit here it is night time in dubai, a crucial interception and the next 12 to 24 hours will determine the fate of things, but if we are lucky enough to have internet freedom to escape this year, we have to remember there's a more fundamental negotiation in 2016 and there's a big meeting in may that lays the foundation for that. we shall keep that in mind. i would like to thank this committee for its unanimous and bipartisan resolution opposing even the smallest of international encroachment on internet freedom. in the meantime, i hope we can all share a new year's resolution to close the title 2 docket and my hopes may not be realized i realize, but ending this proceeding would send a strong signal round globe that the u.s. opposes objecting the internet too late nineteenth century industrial policy. instead of new regulation in this space we should revive a concert
dubai last week and members of your committee staff to prevent the international telecommunication union from expanding its reach into the internet complex ecosystem and as the chairman mentioned, it is a crucial time, as we sit here it is night time in dubai, a crucial interception and the next 12 to 24 hours will determine the fate of things, but if we are lucky enough to have internet freedom to escape this year, we have to remember there's a more fundamental negotiation in 2016 and there's...
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the defense contract workers are union workers. i do not hear the republicans hollering about that. i am is retired veteran. i think it is time we cut back on defense programs. we could close all of the military posts we have overseas since world war -- since world war ii, korea and vietnam. i like your opinion of what the republican said about these defense plants in their states with union workers. thank you. guest: thank you for your call and thank you for your service. we are drawing down with wars in iraq and afghanistan. to your point on defense contractors, we are sitting across the water from virginia. it is one of the larger states in terms of those numbers if you looked at it statistically. that is certainly an option. you are not hearing republican lawmakers, a lot about the relationship between contractors and union jobs. hopefully, it is something we will be looking to in the future. host: is there any discussion about how sequestration will affect the base closures? are there any basis on the chopping block if sequestration goes through? guest: opposed to looking at sp
the defense contract workers are union workers. i do not hear the republicans hollering about that. i am is retired veteran. i think it is time we cut back on defense programs. we could close all of the military posts we have overseas since world war -- since world war ii, korea and vietnam. i like your opinion of what the republican said about these defense plants in their states with union workers. thank you. guest: thank you for your call and thank you for your service. we are drawing down...
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unionized electricians have been piping the annoying cry through loud speakers to protest a nonunion contractor hired there. tenants caught in the middle, as you can imagine, have had enough. >> they don't seem to care. even when we approached them nicely on the first day, they seemed to ignore us. >> it's well within the law. it's within the first amendment. >> that union official did agree to cut off the baby crying, at least for now. he said in the spirit of the season, they'll blast christmas carols instead, and let the debate rage on which is more annoying, a baby or certain carols. but there we are. >> and all the nursing mothers can't go near it, because if a nursing mother hears a baby cry, something happens. >> what? >> the milk. >> is that true? >> remember julia roberts had a famous speech and yeah. she needed a baby to cry. yeah. the milk lets down. >> i ner never knew that. >> it's an audible. if you hear a baby cry, your body lets down the milk and you're ready to go. >> wow. you creatures are amazing. >> we are. >> you do it all. >> why don't you bow right now? >> waa.
unionized electricians have been piping the annoying cry through loud speakers to protest a nonunion contractor hired there. tenants caught in the middle, as you can imagine, have had enough. >> they don't seem to care. even when we approached them nicely on the first day, they seemed to ignore us. >> it's well within the law. it's within the first amendment. >> that union official did agree to cut off the baby crying, at least for now. he said in the spirit of the season,...
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we are gathered here today to celebrate the union of tim and laura. it's amazing how appreciative ople are when you tell them they could save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to geico...they may even make you their best man. may i have the rings please? ah, helzberg diamonds. nice choice, mate. ...and now in the presence of these guests we join this loving couple. oh dear... geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. can your moisturizer do that? [ female...